Cisco IOS XE L2TP Parsing DoS (cisco-sa-20170322-l2tp)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99029

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the Cisco IOS XE software running on the remote device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in its Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) parsing function due to insufficient validation of L2TP packets. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, via a specially crafted L2TP packet, to cause the device to reload.

Note that this issue only affects devices if the L2TP feature is enabled and the device is configured as an L2TP Version 2 (L2TPv2) or L2TP Version 3 (L2TPv3) endpoint. By default, the L2TP feature is not enabled.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCuy82078.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99029

File Name: cisco-sa-20170322-l2tp-iosxe.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 3/28/2017

Updated: 5/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-3857

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:ios_xe

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/IOS-XE/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-3857

BID: 97010

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20170322-l2tp

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCuy82078

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